Film Funding

  • Lost Country

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against Milosević’s regime, 15-year-old Stefan…

    Vladimir Perišić / France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • L’mina

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

    Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Machtat

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Machtat

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    In the small town of Mahdia, Tunisia, live Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh. They…

    Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Madame Courage

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Madmen's Fort

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

    Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Maghrebim

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

    Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Mama, Where Are You?

    Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

    Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Man Without a Cellphone

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    A humorous, sharp take on the social milieu of a Palestinian village inside Israel. Jawdat just…

    Sameh Zoabi / Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Man of Honor

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in Lebanon and Jordan, ‘A Man of Honor’ is a story of passion, betrayal and the many facets…

    Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Manity

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On a calm sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy, accompanies his father Tayseer and his father’s…

    Hussen Ibraheem / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Maqloubeh

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Five young art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardment. As the electricity has b…

    Nicolas Damuni / Palestine, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Mariam

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

    Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

  • Marie & Jolie

    Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

    Marie, a 45-year-old pastor of Cameroonian origin, has been living in Tunisia for 15 years. She…

    Erige Sehiri / France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Marriage Project

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Encourage the patients from a mental hospital to form relationships with each other, get marrie…

    Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

    Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Me Myself and Murdoch

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

    Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mediterranea

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

    Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mediterranean Fever

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Winner of the best screenplay award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last year, the darkly…

    Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar, Cyprus / Feature Narrative

  • Memory Hotel

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

    Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative